𝗣𝗨𝗡𝗝𝗔𝗕 𝗞𝗜𝗦𝗔𝗡 𝗦𝗔𝗕𝗛𝗔 𝗖𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗕𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗦 𝗩𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗬, 𝗦𝗘𝗧𝗦 𝗧𝗔𝗦𝗞𝗦 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗔𝗗𝗩𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗘
On December 27, 2021, a meeting of the state and district leadership of the AIKS Punjab was held at Ludhiana. It was attended by over 100 leaders from 19 of the total 23 districts in Punjab. It celebrated the historic victory of the farmers’ struggle by distribution of sweets and set out specific tasks for the advance of the AIKS.
The meeting was presided over by AIKS state president Gurchetan Singh Bassi and it was addressed by AIKS president Dr Ashok Dhawale, AIKS state vice president and CPI(M) state secretary Sukhwinder Singh Sekhon, and AIKS state general secretary Major Singh Punnewal.
Dr Ashok Dhawale warmly congratulated the AIKS and other fraternal organisations in Punjab for their valuable contribution to the historic one year long farmers’ struggle under the united leadership of the SKM, outlined the significance of its victory over the forces of corporate communalism, and set out the tasks for the rapid advance of the AIKS in Punjab.
Sukhwinder Singh Sekhon outlined the current political situation in Punjab in the run-up to the state assembly elections, and stressed the danger of, and need to, defeat the anti-people, communal and fascistic RSS-BJP in these elections.
Major Singh Punnewal set out the experiences of the struggle at the Singhu border and laid out the specific tasks to be fulfilled by the AIKS in Punjab in the near future.
These tasks had been decided in a separate meeting of the AIKS Punjab state council that was held just before this wider meeting.
The main tasks decided were:
1. Along with CITU and AIAWU, make a big success of the Worker-Peasant Unity Day on January 19 and the All India Strike and Rural Hartal on February 23-24.
2. Concentrate on defeating the BJP-RSS and their allies in the coming state assembly elections.
3. Hold large AIKS general body meetings in each district beginning first week of January, to be attended by state office bearers. The dates were also decided.
4. Begin a massive statewide AIKS membership drive with the full and active participation of the state and district leadership and complete it by January 31.
5. Take up independent local struggles of peasants consistently in each district while participating fully in all future joint calls of the SKM.
6. Concentrate on women and youth peasants and consciously involve and promote them in the AIKS at all levels.
7. After the completion of the membership drive, streamline the entire organisation through the holding of AIKS village, tehsil, district and state conferences as preparation for the next AIKS All India Conference to be held in Kerala in December 2022.
On the same day, the results of the Chandigarh civic elections were announced. They led to a resounding defeat for the BJP.
